Order of WTF

Know what I wonder is the order that the internet chooses to ping various networked together websites about different alerts.

Like the "you have facebook e-mail" e-mail you get in your attached e-mail account.

If you're plugged into YIM, does YIM get the alert that you got an e-mail before your e-mail account gets an alert that you got an e-mail in your facebook? I feel pretty certain that YIM gets pinged before your e-mails get to your inbox. In which case, what the hell is up? It isn't as if knowing that you have an e-mail does you the slightest good without actually HAVING the e-mail. It's sort of stupid.

Yep. I ask the tough questions. The really biting issues. I ask the questions that nobody else thinks up.